words and they're not off limits. >> don't defund the joke police. >> that's it tonight. as i mentioned you're ten hours away from fox and friends weekend kicks off at 6 a.m. tomorrow. until then tucker carlson tonight is next. see you next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the defining principle at the american legal system and american life the principle that's kept us free is equal justice and the principle is fairly simple. whatever you look like or who your parents were or politics might be the law treats you the same way as it would any other american. in this country justice is

blind. now that's a lofty standard but americans have long believed in fairness and most people administering that system have been good this country has lived up to its core ideal 250 years. but the populous surge of 2016 changed everything. washington felt more threatened by more than voters than by any foreign adversary. donald trump to them seemed more dangerous than isis and they panicked and in their panic our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as intel agencies and if necessary the u.s. army against their political opponents. they felt they had no choice in the doing this they abandoned the ancient principle of equality under the law and replaced it with a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime became

enemies of the state. that's a huge state. you're seeing the results of that change tonight. 24 hours after a manhattan grand jury indicted joe biden's rival in the next presidential race another jury convicted douglas mackey do. his crime was mocking hillary clinton voters on line. you're seeing on your screen the meme he posted on twitter during the 2016 election. in that he suggests it's possible to vote for president by text message because only hillary voters could believe something so absurd. his insult did not alter a single vote in the election. the government brought forth not a single victim of this crime. it couldn't. mackey was joking. nobody believed he was a federal election official. his social media profile

pictured a donald trump app. it was unmistakable this was mockery but in the wake of the 2016 election and risings hysteria about president trump mocking the democratic party became a crime so now mackey faces ten years in prison. the case against him is the most shocking attack on freedom of speech in this country in our lifetime and will be and lesson on who will be able to speak forward. christina wong posted almost the same meme in the 2016 election but vote for hillary clinton. same crime but the department of justice under joe biden has shown no interest in prosecuting wong. do you see how this works? have you internalized our new partisan legal standards in that

would be the point of the exercise. they want you to know the rules. we will have more on the doug mackey case and what it means for you had and for america in a moment gichlt way mackey is not the only trump supporter going to prison because of his vote. according to reporting from julie kelly fbi counterterrorism division arrested grandmother in state of virginia on four misdemeanors this week. what did she do? entered the capital with her elderly mother for 15 minutes on january 6. she hurt no one, destroyed nothing, just stood there and yet at the very time during the same week none of the transgenderist thugs who invaded the state legislature yesterday won't be rounded by by the fbi. so what we are watching here is bigger than donald trump. but we are going to begin with the latest on his case because he is and this is not instance

den tald to his prosecution the leading republican candidate for p. now trump apparently is being charged with something much smaller, a slew of process crimes related to a payment he apparently made 7 years ago. in no fair system would that be a crime under the law 7 years later. but the soros funded district attorney in manhattan alvin bragg has stitched together a legal theory to justify the prosecution and normal circumstances it would be impossible because the statute of limitations is past. if all that were not third world enough someone leaked the news of donald trump's grand jury indictment to the media. now that in itself is a crime under the law in new york. in fact a much bigger crime than those under which donald trump is charged. will bragg prosecute the leaker? please. it's almost certainly someone in

his office. bragg will not prosecute hillary clinton even though she just admitted to violating campaign laws by paying for the fake russian dossier. none of this has alerted the watch dogs to government abuse our media no just the opposite. the media are cheerleading our new standard of justice. >> it's our legal system in action saying nobody is above the law. >> nobody is above the law not republicans not democrats not donald trump not anybody. >> i tend to think nobody is above the law. >> we have political leaders who are not above the law. >> we don't believe that anybody should be above the law. >> they're all beating the same drum if you will. >> no one is above the law. today's evidence is that includes trump as well.

>> new life has been breathed into that saying, no person is above the law. >> let's be completely clear. none of the people you just saw care a thing about justice. let this word burn in their mouths. no. they're obviously bloodthirsty. they would cheer as you were necklaced in the street. as long as they're pretending the only standards of fairness and equal application of the law apply then what everybody happened to sam bankman-fried? no one has explained or bothered to tell us how bankman-fried was able to make bail set at $250 million. all that has disclosed to us the public is a dean at stanford put up $500,000 and $200,000 and parents put up the value of

their home. that leaves a big gap where did the rest of the money come from. no one will tell us. no one in the media is asking because no one cared. sam bankman-fried didn't pay off a former miss stress. he defrauded a million people and ran off with houses in the bahamas and yet the system is protecting him. he's not the only criminal that washington refuses to prosecute there. are so many of them. the people who destroyed the u.s. dollar. the ones who turned the u.s. military into a joke. the ones who flooded rural america with opioids. the people currently selling our oil to china. they've all been promoted and we will have more on them. for now we start with donald trump indicted for non-existing

crimes in the middle of a presidential race. dylan founder of the dylan law group thanks for coming up. let's start with a question germane to the race and you have seen cases in which the person charged is gagged by the judge and not allowed to speak about if charges. this is violation of the first amendment but it happens f. this happens to donald trump he will lose his free speech rights as a candidate in a presidential race and i'm just wondering if you think that could potentially happen. >> well, it very much could happen. we have seen it talked about on television already and in fact the president has been subject to similar allegations in other litigation he's involved in way

beyond the statute of limitations the story is that because he says mean things about people sometimes on his free speech platforms he should not be allowed to speak about a fundamental issue of due process that governs the future of our country and how we look at justice and how we look at politicalization of this process so that would be a gross miscarriage of justice if it occurs and i wouldn't be surprised to see this politicized prosecutor make that request of this judge. >> i honestly think it's impossible to imagine greater election interference a greater or more aggressive attack on our system than gagging a presidential candidate in a presidential year. vladimir putin has never dreamed of any attack on the united states more damaging than that. would anyone be able to stop it? >> well , certainly the lawyers in this case will argue against

that, and it may be the kind of issue that they seek an immediate appeal on if they lose but at the end of the day if a court sets those rules a lit gallant has to abide by them or be in contempt of court and that itself would be a very dangerous course to pursue. >> yes. >> so no matter which way you cut it this entire cases from its inception to its continuation to its now being brought to fruition what we hear from the "new york times" not from anything but the d.a.'s office has told the defense team is there are 30-plus charges. we don't know what they are. the "new york times" knows what they are. so this is not the way that justice is meant to go in the united states and what i'm afraid of tuck certify that this isn't just going to be about donald trump. it's going to undermine all citizens confidence in the rule of law in this country and that is really tragic.

>> it is far reaching and be has generational consequences. arlene dylan thank you. >> thank you. >> you have to ask, given that our entire system has been subverted to stop this one guy from being president or serving as president when he had the office what is this about? why do they had haimt donald trump so much? he's racist? here's what it's about. donald trump channeled the reigning policies as president infuriated the knee cons at the state department and pentagon when he briefly paused armed sales to crane they impeached him. when he ordered troops out of syria the pentagon ignored him so it's hard not to see trump's curran indict as an effort to

make sure he can never do anything like that again. he can never tamper with the one thing they care about most, foreign policy which has weakened it. miller is former senior adviser to donald trump. stephen miller i wonder what you think of that. sort of came to that watching the trump saga. that seems to be the third rail, the foreign policy question. >> yes and i lived through it tucker by this man's side for those 7 years. the moment that he got the nomination, we watched as the hidden power centers in this country came out from underneath their rocks and began the pull the strings that they control. they began to leak information designed to sabotage him use every organ in the national security community the law enforcement community to try to

control him and his presidency. russia is the central example of this. they tried desperately to keep him from pursuing peace with russia or holding that summit with vladimir putin to try to have a relationship between our countries. look what's happened now that he is out of office. we are on the brink of a world war tucker as soon as they pushed him out of office we are almost in a nuclear conflict over the borders of ukraine so you ask what is donald trump's crime. we know it's not a financial crime. we know it's not a campaign fines crime. his crime is refusing to bow or bend to be the corrupt foreign policy establishment that is used to always get in their way in this country. >> it has much greater control over our system than any of us appreciate. you look at john cornyn from texas and you realize when you view through the lens of what's

happening in ukraine cornyn and mitch mcconnell and tom tillis and other republicans are screaming liberals. if not for foreign policy you wouldn't know they're aligned with chuck schumer and the demps and joe biden so there is unity on this important question. >> there's obviously a ideology disease that courses through washington with foreign policy and sacrifice of our interest to foreign nations and foreign profits but it's deeper than that. i know because i workdz on the hill for almost a decade, the intelligence community is able to manipulate the process and the relationship with lawmakers in order to obtain the answers they wants from congress. so when it comes to an issue like the patriot act they had can leak what they need to leak. three can manufacture the threat they need to and work the relationships they have in order to obtain the outcome that they

want and that has always been true on foreign policy for years and donald trump comes up onto the scene at washington a man with whom they have no relationship a man who has no affinity for them, who doesn't care about them, he doesn't value what they value and it's a panic moment and we are living in the seventh year of that panic turning our entire democracy upside down and as as a prosecutor in manhattan can take over a presidential process by what definition can we say we have democracy in this country? >> we were mocked by the president of el salvador. he's right. stephen miller thank you for that. >> thank you. >> so again the irony is he have been lecturing us years about

election interference but you're watching it happen the prosecution of donald trump is election interference. leaks about his imminent arrest started coming out march 17 after the house oversight committee traced payments to joe biden's family. weird no one is talking about it. and the insurrection that happened in tennessee and other things so we thought we had would bring in miranda devine from the "new york post" who has been on this china cash story. thanks for coming on. remind us of this story which has been lost in the noise if you would. >> well this was a bone show revelation that that has been chasing down the money trail from china to family coffers.

what they found was one million payment from china that went through a proxy intimate of the biden family and parcelled out to four different family members that hunter biden uncle jim and sister-in-law hallie biden who is the widow of hunter's late brother with whom he had an affair so then there's another account with an unnamed biden and this money was parcelled out over three months, to disguise it so it didn't look like what it was which was a prescribe from china. big story in the money trail and was buried somebody leaked the story to the media that trump was about to be arrested so all we've seen 24/7 since then is

news about trump and that works for the democrats. it works for joe biden you remember in 2020 he hid in the basement and beat trump because he was had the excuse of covid and in 2024 he won't have the excuse of covid but what he will have is the excuse of numerous of these trump legal prosecutions, you know, political sized prosecutions and that will bury any bad news after four years of his administration stuffing up pretty of everything they touch but we don't hear news about that more the scandals that the house republicans have uncovered in the last two weeks everything from the border to more of these biden scandals to be anthony fauci's life none of it gets

oxygen because donald trump is like crack cocaine to the networks to the left wing media and we also know that if there are any sort of legal outcomes and accountability that comes for joe biden or his family's influence peddling scheme it will be dismissed as the republicans just attacking donald trump, attacking joe biden on behalf of donald trump. >> this country used to be filled with reporters like you honest and dogged. i hope you're awarded some day. >> thanks tucker. >> so as we told you a moment ago the single most brazen attack on the first amendment your right to have opinions that differ from those of people in charge the single most brazen attack ever from the biden administration which about to send a man to prison for ten years for making fun of hillary

clinton. that was his crime. more on that case next

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. >> the douglas mackey case we told you about at the top of the

show seems like a turning point in the country. hallmark of free society is freedom of speech. you don't have to hide what's on your conscience and above all can you mock the people in challenge. they have to take it because the country belongs to all of us, but the hallmark of tyrants is a lack of sense of humor and utter intolerance for dissent. so to see a man sent to ten years in prison and that's what doug mackey is facing after his conviction for making fun of hillary clinton and then to see hillary clinton remain same -- silent about it, to see the media remain silent in the face of the most basic of all human rights being violated like this lets you know they're on the

side of the u.s. government the biden administration punishing people for mocking the party in charge with ten years in prison. >> hemingway chief editor of the federalist. monica thank you for coming on. i'm not sure i've seen anything scarier. >> pathetic and sick, and there are people in new york who care so little about the things that make our country unique that they would vote to convict this person. it just seems like we don't have a country and we don't have rules. the only thing we have is whether you're with the regime or against it.

>> you can burn down cities, can you create the russia collusion hoax, come up with aer. about justice somebody dominating the supreme court being a serial gang rapist and nothing happening to you, you can make jokes about how to vote on election day but if you're on the right if you upset the regime anything can happen. >> they're breaking the uni party because almost all republicans have stood up for doug mackey. people in charge in washington are breaking so many things so many fundamental systems that have kept this country afloat for hundreds of years and you wonder what is the next stage here? if you put people in prison for mocking hillary clinton what's next? >> it's amazing how much was

destroyed because the left's refusal to accept the candidate they supported. they're willing to burn having down. they're willing to break every precedent and normal because they're having this temper tran presume and fear the people might have a say in it but that's what needs to happen is the people need to be able to oust these people from office and positions of power. they need to get their country back. what we have or had is so precious here from first amendment protection to understanding of constitutional due process and we cannot let peoples hatred and obsession take what from us. >> they're all welcome on the show any time to stand up against the destruction of the first amendment. i haven't heard any of them weigh in on this.

>> people need to speak loudly and understand how serious the threats are that we are facing right now and how when you see this happening in other countries, this type of persecution of people bad things happen and people who care about this country should speak loudly bit. >> this case and anyone who doubts the significance look at the details. i think any decent person would be shocked by what the government did. monica henl way thank you for that. >> thank you. >> so as the republican frontrunner gets indeed on fake charges washington refuses to prosecute democrats that have changed the country and brought us to the brink of a nuclear war. what about people like that? we will consider it next.

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>> the hallmark of tyranny is the total distortion of justice. actual crimes are described as business as usual. so even as we are trying to throw people in prison for criticizing the democratic party, we are allowing people who have hurt this country profoundly to climb up the ladder of success. many examples of this. toria newland the architect of our war with russia was the architect of our war in iraq. before the war there were about a million and a half christians there. now a nine thousand are left but

newland was not held to account for this. she was praised and promoted went back in government service and caught on tape orchestrateing a coup in ukraine. here's the tape from 2014. >> just a guy who has got the economic experience the governing experience. what he needs is to be talking to them four times a week. you know, i then cleech going in at that level is not going to work. >> i think that's right. >> so, that's the lady who lectures about democracy subverting it in a foreign country getting kaubt and getsing a better job and then pushing another pointless war against russia. she's one of the architects of this war. she's driving this nation into a con flick against russia and

china. we can't win that war. we will lose that war. it will destroy our country but newland hasn't been punished for this. the destruction she has brought is almost beyond fiction. here she is bragging about blowing up criminal infrastructure in europe. watch. >> senator cruz like you, i am i think the administration is very gratified to know that nordstream 2 is now a hung of metal at the bottom of the sea. >> no one says a word about i. what does it take to get indicted in washington? if you're torey you know you won't be indicted, you'll get some sort of award for women at the state department. that's the lesson what's happening to donald trump and

their supporters and their sin was opposeing the people in charge and particularly their foreign policy. so using the legal system to stop a political rival in a presidential race is the gravest possible attack on core institutions. it's election interference. it's and actual threat to democracy. you think some one would care but nancy pelosi is celebrating. last night the most revealing quote on social media. here it is. no, in a free country, the government has to prove guilt. you're innocent until proven guilty! but nancy pelosi inverts it. prove your innocence, criminal. she believes that you are guilty the moment they come after you. so you have to ask where are the adults? has anyone in authority on the

democratic side on the neo liberal side stood up not for trump or mackey but for our country? we watched today and we didn't hear one. glen gerenawald has long reported on the abuses of the political system. he joins us. you would think somebody would say i don't like trump but this is doing grave damage to be institutions we are going to need years from now but not one we can be find has said that. >> i heard knew a prior segment people like karl rove and george b bush, i think people like newland are the key to the whole thing they are determined not to criminalize conservatism or whoever. they're determined to

criminalize donald trump and his movement because the only time newland was in government she work for clinton dick cheaney or biden was when donald trump was elected president. that's why they're single mindedly determined to criminalize donald trump and his movement. that's what we saw yesterday with his indictment and today with this person who is going to prison because of anti-hillary clinton memes on twitter. >> the problem is in organizeing the system that way they cut out the majority of the population. the majority of american voters either party in favor going to war with nuclear armed russia and china? i don't think the majority is in favorite that of. do you? >> no, or for example keeping troops in syria which i would bet nobody knows the suns doing it yet matt gates had a resolution to withdraw troops from syria saying we shouldn't be spending on that and the

republicans and democrats joined together and say no we want to let joe biden keep troops in syria. it's the establishment thugs of the real party. donald trump was the only who could disrupt it. that's why they want to criminalize that movement. >> right. if you were to write out the crimes of donald trump beak obnoxious vs. the crimes of newland destroying the west, one list would be longer than the other. glen thanks very much. >> thank. >> the qanon jacob was arrested on january 6. he was released from prison on the same day there was an actual insurrection at the state capital in tennessee. kind of an amaze juxtaposition we will explore after the break.

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>> former george w- bush gene sch schmitt. >> i think the most amazing thing about the whole thing is watching the video and on the senate floor there's a cop who is armed and a guy bursts in, the qanan shaman dressed like a viking and you're watching. shoot him. [applause] >> you burst into the united states senate if he it was dressed bin laden would you have shot him? >> shoot him on the basis of media coverage like that jacob chantly sent more than two years

behind bars. we got video that proved he did nothing wrong heat was standing on the floor of the senate because capitol police held him there. armed officers open the door and let him n. he's a political prisoner. he remains one. the biden administration is demanding he serve another six months in a way house to make sure his life is destroyed. meanwhile in nashville yesterday there was an actual insurrection, screaming rioters storm the tennessee capitol. [chanting]

[sho [shouting [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]. >> and at one point the rioters mocked the 6 christians including 3 children murdered by a transterrorist in tennessee holding up fingers meaning the killer was one of the victims. >> every death was a tragedy. 7 lives. >> jacob chancely was escorted by the police officer in a capitol. here we have people pushing police and celebrating murdered. looks like insurrection.

you wonder what biden adviser john meeykcham thinks we should do. let's arrest every one of them and throw them in jail. let them sit there a while then be sent public defend horse hate them and then in a dumb years after we have harassed their familiar canceled their credit cards and placed on the federal list, or simply shoot them. we reached out to schmitt to see if he would man the firing squad but he didn't respond. fbi and nashville police have not released the manifesto of the murderer of 3 children and 3

adults at that christian school. buck, you know in any case the public has a right to know the evidence. they showed tuesday gun. they showed tuesday pictures of people being killed inside the school. why won't they show us the moat incentive. >> a few things here tucker. one is i think we recognize the facts pattern were different there would already be all the information out there. manifesto would have been shared with the public. i think that's pretty clear. i also think the longer the delay occurs the more likely it feels there is an effort to shape a political marchive in front of all n. you've seen i'm suretive last few days there have been articles that were really supposed to make people teary eyed on behalf of the shooter, a very sympathetic profile looking at the psychology and the tough life the shooter had and stuff about how the right is being big on theed and hateful. we have seen before in the obama administration the pulse nights

club shooting they redacted in the fbi transcript i'm sure people remembers things like isis and i'm doing this for allah. that was such a catastrophe the fbi went back on it but you get the sense from the phenomenal response of the police officers running in in the face of the threat right away, you wonder why delay it if it's going to come out? it's a counterterrorism expert. i would like to look at it. i think we understand the politics are why they're getting the first pass. >> ghait means is they're using the murder of children to manipulate the people for political results to take away civil liberties. >> if the authorities here and reason to withhold to this point that had to do with individual

safety or security they should say so but they haven't said we don't want peoples personal addresses or information out there, things have to be redacted they're telling us wire going to figure out the motive first. we are going to let the democrat aligned media create massive narrative in advance so that the delay and deflect and defer tactics are in place and when you actually get to see if this person was a radicalized member of the transgender community who was committing an act of domestic terrorism or hate crime some time will pass there will be a counternarrative in place and people won't necessarily look at the rhetoric in the media about transgenocide or state laws that are erasing transpeople and how that could have played a role in the mentality of this shooter. they don't want anyone thinking about that. that's why they're delaying it in my opinion so far because they haven't told us otherwise. we don't need experts to tell

tuesday motive. the point of the manifesto was people would see for themselves. the public has a right to know. >> but the transgender ist lobby doesn't want us to see. buck sexton thanks for coming on tonight. we will be right back.

>> despite all that that's happening in america the people are still great. enjoy the weekend. >> welcome to andy. right now, it is official. former president donald trump will be arraigned in manhattan on tuesday coming up the president's attorney joe, also laura trump, tulsi gabbard and more on florida governor ron desantis and his move not to